In this compelling and deeply human conversation, Dr. Sohn A. Butts sits with educator, professor, and prison higher education scholar Dr. Mark Cornelius Booker to examine the transformative power of education beyond prison walls. Drawing on decades of teaching in correctional institutions, Booker challenges listeners to move beyond public perceptions of incarceration and instead view incarcerated individuals as students first—human beings whose capacity for growth, learning, and contribution does not disappear because of a criminal conviction. Together, Butts and Booker argue that the purpose of education is not to relitigate a person's past but to cultivate human development, dignity, and possibility.

Throughout the conversation, Booker dismantles common misconceptions surrounding higher education in prison, illustrating how rigorous acad ...